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CARTRIDGE GAPPER AND UNOAPPBR.

Patented Dec. 6,1881.

r. Wuhingla UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES THISTLETHWAITE, OF ILION, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO E. REMING- TON SONS.

CARTRIDGE CAPPER AND UNCAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,603, dated December 6, 1881. Application filed October 21, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom Lt may concern Beit known thatI, JAMES THISTLETWHAITE, of Ilion, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in (Jartridge-Reloaders, of which. the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of tools or implements used for reloading cartridges; and the invention consists in the novel construction of the implement, as hereinafter more specifically described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, illustrating the manner of using the implement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the implement, and Fig. 3 is a face view of a portion of the implement shown detached.

As is well known, cartridge-shells as now made are capable of being reloaded and used several times; and in order to do this it'is necessary to remove the exploded primer and substitute a fresh one, for which work various styles of implements have heretofore been devised.

The object of the present invention is to produce a tool for this purpose which shall be efficient, light, and handy to use.

To construct my improved implement, I make a handle, A, as represented in the drawings, it consisting of a small straight piece of metal, having a curve or recess, I, in one side, as shown in Fig. 3, of suitable size to receive a shell, as represented in Fig. 1, and just beyond which recess it is provided with vertically-projecting ears D, for pivoting the other handle, B, to, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2. The handle A has a part, A, made to project in a right line beyond the point where the two arms are pivoted together, and at its extremity this part A has a right-angled projection, J, to which is secured around stud, C, for re ceiving and holding the shell, and projecting from the end of which is a small punch orpin, f, for pushing out the primer, as shown in Fig. 2. The other handle, B, is bent at a rightangle at its front end, and is provided with a shoulder, 0, on which the free end of a spring, it, bears to hold the arms apart, this spring being secured to the part A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The angular portion of arm B, which projects down into and works freely in a slot in handle A, is provided with two shoulders, l and m, the former being so arranged that when the handle B is moved as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1,it will bear against the head of the shell and press it back on the stud 0, thereby causing the pin f to shove the primer out of the pocket in the head of the shell, the pin, of course, entering the vent-hole in the bottom of the pocket in the operation. tion, m, is made somewhat longer, and is inclined at an angle, its object being to serve as a uard for the hand by defiectin g the primer in case it should explode when punched out of the pocket, it sometimes being necessary to remove primers which, for various reasons, have failed to explode when struck by the hammer or firing-pin of the gun in which the cartridges are used.

The handle B is also provided with a punch,

a, located directly over the center of the recess I in arm A, for forcing the fresh primer into the pocket of the shell, as indicated in Fig. 1, where the shell is shown in dotted lines as being suspended or held This feature, however, I do not claim, as it is shown in the patent to L. L. Hepburn of April 6, 1875, No. 161,682.

The implement constructed as herein described is exceedingly efiicient, very handy to use, and so light that it can be conveniently carried about the person in case of necessity.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is-- 1. The arm A, provided with the projection A, having the stud (1, with its punchf rigidly connected to and parallel with the part A, in combination with the pivoted arm B, provided with the shoulder Z, the whole being arranged to operate substantially as shown 0 and described.

2. In combination with the arm A, having the stud O rigidly attached,as shown, the piv oted arm B, provided with the shoulder l and the guard m, substantially as and for the pur pose set forth.

JAMES THISTLETHWAITE.

Witnesses:

THOS. RICHARDSON, Gaol). HUTCHINS.

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